My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.